Senators and Congressmen don't pay into Social Security. Why? They have a special, "privileged" retirement plan that they voted for themselves many years ago. It's time for a change. The U.S. citizens have payed their dues. It's time for everyone to be in the same plan.

Our Senators and Congressmen don't pay in to Social Security, and, of course, they don't collect from it.

The reason is that they have a special retirement plan that they voted for themselves many years ago. For all practical purposes, it works like this:

When they retire, they continue to draw their same pay, until they die, except that it may be increased from time to time, by cost of living adjustments.

This fine retirement comes right out of the General Fund: our tax money. While we who pay for it all, draw an average of $1000/month from Social Security.

Senators and Congressmen need to be part of the same Social Security with the rest of us. We can't afford to foot the bill anymore. Teachers are being fired, music and art are things of the past. Bus monitors are becoming a thing of the past. Every time you turn around, some type of public program is being cut. This money should used by the people who gave it in the first place.